Decoding the legend of the father of genetics (BMN News)

The truth behind the legend of Gregor Mendel, almost as famous for fixing his results as for fathering genetics, could lie buried in storage boxes in a Czech warehouse. Documents and artefacts from the abbey in Brno where Mendel, Augustinian friar and renowned pea-breeder, lived and worked, are being unearthed for the first time in over 100 years, announced science historians today.